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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Other structure
- District
- Congleton
- Town
- Church Lawton
- County
- Cheshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Foundation Stone
Date: 06th March 1926
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Foundation Stone
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 42762
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Current location
ALL SAINTS CHURCH
Church Lawton
Congleton
Cheshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SJ 822 557
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- STONE PORCH WITH PITCHED STONE ROOF, WITH ASSOCIATED STONE TABLET. TABLET IS INSIDE PORCH. TABLET IS LANCET SHAPED. INCISED LETTERING. CIRCULAR LAUREL WREATH AT TOP CENTRE.
- Inscription
- 1914 PRO PATRIA 1918/ THIS PORCH WAS ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ (NAMES) THIS MEMORIAL STONE/ WAS LAID BY/ MRS ALEXANDER BAILEY/ MARCH 6TH 1926
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Alcock, Arthur
Bailey, Charles
Booth, Donald
Burgess, James
Crimes, Leonard
Holdcroft, Harold
Jenkinson, Harry
Kent, Frank
Mottram, James
Ollerhead, Ernest
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: surname
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: height 770 MM, width 920 MM
Materials: Stone - Limestone - Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Sandstone
- Tablet
- Listing information
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
- Grade II*
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- All Saints Church Memorial
- WMO ID: 183574
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 13-03-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. Please check back as we are adding more names to the database.
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